His boon was granted
that
wretched
man; and his ruler saw
first time what was fashioned in far-off days.
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CXXXVIII
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned
in the world's false subtleties.
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300,
303, written in a
previous
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Hearts refreshed
By discharge of
emotion!
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Hic futuit multas et se facit esse venustum,
Et non pistrino
traditur
atque asino?
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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The
following
is a sample of Sung Yu's prose:
MASTER T?
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But there was something else, something hardly
personal, something which
belonged
to a consciousness older than the
Christian, which I realised, wondered at, and admired, in her passionate
tranquillity of mind, before which everything mean and trivial and
temporary caught fire and burnt away in smoke.
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I make this maiden an ensample
To Nature, through her
kingdoms
ample,
Whereby to model newer races,
Statelier forms and fairer faces;
To carry man to new degrees
Of power and of comeliness.
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If you stick to
the good actions you are
respected
by the good.
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And though thy matchless
impudence
may frame
Some mask of seeming courage--spite thy sneer,
And thou assurest sloth and skunk: "It does not smart!
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But all your souls He'll lay, our
Glorious
God,
In Paradise, His holy flowers upon!
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Chanson de Roland |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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There are in _The Book of Pictures_ poems in which this will to
concentrate a mood into its essence and finality is applied to purely
lyrical poems as in _Initiation_, that stands out in this volume like
"the great dark tree" itself so immeasurable is the straight line of its
aspiration reaching into the far distant silence of the night; or as in
the poem entitled _Autumn_, with its
melancholy
mood of gentle descent
in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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Wondrous seems
how to sons of men
Almighty
God
in the strength of His spirit sendeth wisdom,
estate, high station: He swayeth all things.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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_You_, whose black trail of butchered ships
Bestrews
the bed of every sea
Where German submarines have wrought
Their horrors!
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" They find a close
parallel
in the _coplas_ of Spain,
_cf.
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To learn the transport by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick, homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the
sovereign
anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"O hush thee, gentle
popinjay!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of
currants
210
C.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In the Highlands of
Scotland
may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about Cuthullin and
Fingal.
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
And not one word to answer him he knew;
They spurred in haste, their horses let run loose,
And,
wheresoeer
they met the pagans, strook.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Cold is the heart, fair Greece, that looks on thee,
Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they loved;
Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy
mouldering
shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
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he walks
On heaven's pavement; brotherly he talks 410
To divine powers: from his hand full fain
Juno's proud birds are pecking pearly grain:
He tries the nerve of Phoebus' golden bow,
And asketh where the golden apples grow:
Upon his arm he braces Pallas' shield,
And strives in vain to unsettle and wield
A Jovian thunderbolt: arch Hebe brings
A full-brimm'd goblet, dances lightly, sings
And tantalizes long; at last he drinks,
And lost in
pleasure
at her feet he sinks, 420
Touching with dazzled lips her starlight hand.
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Keats |
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[636]
Surnames
of Bacchus.
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Aristophanes |
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But that afar from us
Veriest reason may drive such life away,
Much yet remains to be
embellished
yet
In polished verses, albeit hath issued forth
So much from me already; lo, there is
The law and aspect of the sky to be
By reason grasped; there are the tempest times
And the bright lightnings to be hymned now--
Even what they do and from what cause soe'er
They're borne along--that thou mayst tremble not,
Marking off regions of prophetic skies
For auguries, O foolishly distraught
Even as to whence the flying flame hath come,
Or to which half of heaven it turns, or how
Through walled places it hath wound its way,
Or, after proving its dominion there,
How it hath speeded forth from thence amain--
Whereof nowise the causes do men know,
And think divinities are working there.
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Lucretius |
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Possibly
it means that all things high and low are filled
alike with the divine spirit and in this sense all things are equal.
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E non er' anco del mio petto essausto
l'ardor del sacrificio, ch'io conobbi
esso litare stato accetto e fausto;
che con tanto lucore e tanto robbi
m'apparvero
splendor
dentro a due raggi,
ch'io dissi: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sell no honours, nor give them hastily, but bestow them with
counsel and for reward; if he do,
acknowledge
it (though late), and mend
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I feel like one who smiles, and turning shall remark
Suddenly, his
expression
in a glass.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The wonder was the tents weren't
snatched
away
From over you as you lay in your beds.
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Robert Forst |
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He had
not been long there, when, like Chillingworth,
he was ensnared by the proselyting arts of the
Jesuits, who, with subtilty equal to their zeal,
commissioned their emissaries specially to aim at
the conversion of such of the
university
youths
as gave indications of signal ability.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
"If they all took their
passages
like that instead of talking about
their trunks, life would be worth something," said the clerk to his
neighbour, who was trying to explain to a harassed mother of many that
condensed milk is just as good for babes at sea as daily dairy.
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Kipling - Poems |
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is
wretched
made,
And every day we two will pray
For him that's gone and far away.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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sorrowful
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Homage
Each Dawn however numb
To raise a fist obscure
Against
trumpets
of azure
Sounded by her, the dumb,
Has the shepherd with his gourd
Joined to a rod struck harshly
Along the path to be
Till the vast stream's outpoured
Already thus solitary
You live O Puvis
De Chavannes
never alone
Lead our age to quench its thirst
From the shroud-less nymph, the one
Whom your glory will rehearse
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The mayster-hunte anoon, fot-hoot, 375
With a gret horne blew three moot
At the
uncoupling
of his houndes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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THE
FALSEHOOD
OF EXTREMES IN STYLE
But oft our greatest errors take their rise
From our best views.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Who says that fool alone is not thy due,
And quotes thy
treacheries
to prove it true!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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(_To_
WELLBORN)
Yet, to shut up thy mouth, and make thee give
Thyself the lie, the loud lie!
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So great was Summer's glow:
Thy shadows lay upon the dials' faces
And o'er wide spaces let thy
tempests
blow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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It has been
remarked
that the _Iliad_ is not definitively
closed, but that we are left to suppose something both to precede
and to follow it.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Tout casses
Qu'ils sont, ils ont des yeux
percants
comme une vrille,
Luisants comme ces trous ou l'eau dort dans la nuit;
Ils ont les yeux divins de la petite fille
Qui s'etonne et qui rit a tout ce qui reluit.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Baudelaire
was as
conscientious as Gautier.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" the rebel cries,
In his
arrogant
old plantation strain.
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This love of ours it seems to be
Like a twig on a hawthorn tree
That on the tree
trembles
there
All night, in rain and frost it grieves,
Till morning, when the rays appear
Among the branches and the leaves.
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Troubador Verse |
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In all drink
He
detected
the bitter,
And in all touch
He found the sting.
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Stephen Crane |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Ich
wunschte
nicht, Euch irre zu fuhren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops, slanting rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit
resounds
upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Why
specially
Jean?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
CRAVEN
HENRY NEWBOLT
[Sidenote: August 5, 1864]
_In the attack on Mobile Bay the monitor
Tecumseh
was sunk by a
torpedo.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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High over them the black train swept with thunder,
Cleaving
the city, leaving far beneath it
Wharf-boats moored beside the old side-wheelers
Resting in twilight.
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-- As morn by morn I rise with fresh delight,
Time through my
casement
cheerily doth call
`Nature is new, 'tis birthday every day,
Come feast with me, let no man say me nay,
Whate'er befall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sift this
untoward
strife
On which thy mind is bent:
See if this chaff of life
Is worth the trouble spent.
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John Clare |
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A
Birthday
Song.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Without your Gold mere
Knowledge
fails
To sate the swinish appetite!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
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Keats |
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"
"By these pearls whose spotless chain,
Oh, my gentle sovereign,
Clasps thy neck of ivory,
Aught thou askest I will be,
If that
necklace
pure of stain
Thou wilt give for rosary.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Robert Forst |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me,
shrouded
in the living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Long Susan lay deep lost in thought,
And many
dreadful
fears beset her,
Both for her messenger and nurse;
And as her mind grew worse and worse,
Her body it grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
DAMOETAS
"My Muse,
although
she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Why, 'of course,'
Charlie?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Still, in the midst of the arctic day, we may trace the summer to its
retreats, and sympathize with some
contemporary
life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But
nevertheless
she accuses you .
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Aristophanes |
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To Ireland, I:
Our
seperated
fortune shall keepe vs both the safer:
Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles;
The neere in blood, the neerer bloody
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Their deaths were dew-drops on Heaven's
amaranth
bower,
And tolled on flowers as Summer gales went by.
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John Clare |
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ou
suffredest
euermore,
And took it nou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then the admiral, his brother calleth he,
'Tis Canabeus, the king of Floredee,
Who holds the land unto the Vale Sevree;
He's shewn to him Carlun's ten companies:
"The pride of France,
renowned
land, you see.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He
catcheth
all that Circumstance
Hath tossed to him.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad:
They pointed to a
building
gray and tall,
And hoarsely answered "Step inside, my lad,
And then you'll see it all.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For an Englishman,
Greek
mythology
means as much as the mythology of the North.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Afterward, being asked to write it out as an
autograph for the Baltimore Sanitary Commission Fair, I added other
verses, into some of which I fused a little more sentiment in a homely
way, and after a fashion completed it by
sketching
in the characters'
and making a connected story.
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James Russell Lowell |
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To be eternal--what a brilliant
thought!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The employment of
what we may call
Christian
machinery, the angels and devils of Tasso and
Milton, was, of course, out of the question.
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Alexander Pope |
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The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too apparent in the very manner and
intensity
of
expression.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yet
silenced
cannot be this throbbing
Which dolefulness alone dispels.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Will we rate our cash and
business
high?
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Whitman |
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"
Then up and spake the popinjay,
Sae wisely
counselled
he.
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Lewis Carroll |
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